AC: Time. After a long day at work, sometimes you just don’t feel like talking. But if a blog is part of your mission and integrated into your work day, that becomes a lot easier. Even if that’s the case, though, you’ll still need to pace yourself; Too many bloggers start by posting 30 entries a day, then burn out after a few months. Blogging is a marathon, not a sprint. Also, there’s the issue of quality control; as a personal blog, my site occasionally will have a slip of the keyboard, but most blog readers tolerate that. But higher quality is expected from blogs associated with organizations rather than individuals.

I don’t think we should too hung up on blogging itself… We need to realize that the digital age has created a ripe environment for quickly disseminating and absorbing information. We are becoming a multi-tasking and connected society. Most folks now demand news and information from more than just their local papers. Nonprofits need to take advantage of this change in personal engagement to the world, and make sure we have a place in that new window.

Regular readers of this blog will notice we took trackbacks off while ago largely because of the reasons listed in this Ant’s Eye View article. In short trackbacks were making an insane amount of spam and generating no useful comments.

* Note: It seems like typepad has some problems in their CSS right now so the content gets pushed way down the page. Scroll down it’s down there and worth reading. I pulled a choice quote to entice reluctant scrollers.

What changes for academics when they blog ? : This is the point: Academics are afraid more often than not of what could change the pace of their academic life. One professor in the room said that blogs were “disruptive for the Ivory Tower”. Great, that’s what we want! Another professor added that “the University has never been great at distributing knowledge”. That’s why they nicknamed it the Ivory Tower. Well, it doesn’t have to be so, especially in the so-called knowledge economy. Blogs are wonderful tools to expand the reach of knowledge. This would be an oxymoron not to take advantage of it.